The following account happened at a Washington D.C. supermarket in the late 1980s. The tactics used were very similar to the tactics used in the Baltimore Race Purge of April 2015 by groups of three to fifteen black men armed with bats, bottles, bricks, clubs and gas cans that roamed East Baltimore, Eastern Baltimore County, and Northeast Baltimore, beating down lone white men and generally keeping the population indoors while burglary gangs hit liquor stores, pharmacies, jewelry stores and cell phone retailers. Such tactics are sound, low risk, increasingly common, and will form the basis for the majority of violent street encounters in urban purges to come. The most extreme violence is to be had on parking lots, not on streets and sidewalks, so be extra vigilant on asphalt pads.

#62-04: night, minutes, eye-witness

“This was at a supermarket, and involved an assistant manager, Mister Hall, who liked to mess with people. He messed with me. But I didn’t mind. I’m easy goin.’ He mess with this young boy—seventeen—hang with ‘em nappy-heads [Jamaicans]. He would write the boy up for small stuff, en give him the dirty jobs.

[Gus knew the boy was angry and tried to calm him down.] “The boy said, ‘I know I need the job, but I can’t take this anymore.’

“The next night Mister Hall left at ten-thirty. I could see him walkin’ to his car on the lot—I was inside, night crew. Every time he move, these two black cars with lights move.

"Just as he was nearin’ ‘is car they pulled on eitha side and four dudes with bats get outa each car! They all had bats! Mister Hall was a big man. These dudes were younger, somewhat smaller. Jamaicans dressed in black ski masks.

“Oh My God! Poor Mister Hall! They batted him down. Batted him down bad! They was comin’ down straight [bent over the fallen man] and you could hear the hit from inside! It was terrible. No man deserves to be done like that, unless he harm a chyle.

“I had called the police—didn’t even think about goin’ out there. Not only for the bats. If you got eight Jamaicans you got at least two guns! I thought they had killed him. There was no sign of life when they stopped.

“Mister Hall lived. He was in the hospital for six weeks: broke arms; broke ribs; jaw broke in four places; plate in ‘is head. The police did investigate, but the boy’s mother swore he was home with her the whole time. No charges against no one.”

-Gus

The mass attack with blunt weapons is less likely to result in death than the gun-armed assault or the knife attack. This, the third most deadly form of human attack, is, in the United States, most likely to maim, and is, by far, the safest physically and legally, with only a tiny umber of mass attackers who use blunt weapons, or who assist those using the weapons, doing any time. Very few ever even face charges.